State House opponents meet for first time at polls

Veteran Houston firefighter Fernando Herrera spent hours at precinct 54 in the Heights looking for folks who planned to vote in the Republican primary and to court last-minute support.

One of those GOP voters included his Houston District 148 Republican challenger Howard H. Gano Jr. They met for the first time around 11 a.m. outside the gym at Sinclair Elementary.

“We said hello and told each other good luck,” said Herrera, a Houston Fire Department emergency operations deputy fire chief. “I chose to stay at this one just because of the numbers. It looks like this is a strong Republican precinct, and I worked this area, and it’s close to my home.”